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Welcome Fame! for these accomplished dancers from the Ministry of Dance who were invited to perform with Mardi Gras Productions to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Mardi Gras who offer performance opportunities in the West End Theatres to dance schools across the country. Having worked with the Group on many occasions, Ministry of Dance Principal, Tracy Macullum LIDTA was thrilled to take a cast of forty dancers to perform at the Royal Albert Hall. Students aged from 6-16 rehearsed for twelve weeks to perfect their performance of ‘The Body Electric’ taken from the original TV series of Fame. The students also learnt a grand finale number on the day of the performance. Another triumph for the Deepings!

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The Rotary Club of the Deepings annual run.

A 40s theme for the celebration of 10 years for Grasmere and 3 for Lill’is at Market Gate.

Rose Lodge Care Home host a 40’s themed tea party and owners Country Court Care look forward to opening a new home in Tallington. There is an Open Day on Sunday 20th August when Alykhan Kachra, MD looks forward to showing off his new 30 bed care home which, while being built of traditional stone, incorporates state of the art design and functionality.

Congratulations to Deeping Rangers U12’s football team who earlier this month took part in the Lions District Youth Football Tournament held at Retford and won the cup. The team coached, by Graham Fieding, were representing the Deeping Lions in the competition consisting of 9 teams throughout the East Midlands. The team won the league section winning 5 games out of 6, won the semi final 8-0 and the final versus a team from Lincoln 3-0.

Cllr Jill Thomas presented a cheque for £530 to Vikki Allen of the St. Barnabas Trust following a successful raffle held at the Gyles Brandreth dinner held as part of the Deepings Literary Festival.

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The initiative instigated by the Community Centre to provide a hospital equipment amnesty has proved very successful and there has been a very broad spectrum of items returned!. The service is continuing for the time being but equipment must be returned to the Community Centre itself.

Grand opening of Riverside Beads with TV’s Dean Wilsom.

Some say she is a dog with soulful eyes, others may say she is great fun on a walk but in fact Sossy is no ordinary dog. On one of her early morning walks taken when the birds reign supreme and the rest of the world is still tucked up under the duvet, Sossy ran off sniffing out squirrels as she normally does, compensating for her bad eyesight with a great sense of smell. Disappearing round a little known corner she came back, tail between her legs and ears flat down, she had clearly had a fright - could it have been a fox? She reluctantly trotted on, subdued and when it was time to return home she once again tentatively approached the little known corner. Intrigued as to what she might have seen her owner went with her.

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May 21st Sportive sets off from the Spin Room.

School’s almost out for summer!

Coffee morning at Benedict’s Court.

Students from the Deepings School in Year 10 have just taken part in a two week period of work experience. Over 200 + organisations in Deeping and further afield provided a placement to allow the young people to improve their employability skills and experience a taste of what it is really like to go out to work.

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FEATURE

Established in 1989, Deepings Heritage had its inaugural meeting in the Studio of local watercolourist, Derek Abel. Immediately the band of founder members; Ann Taylor, Keith Simpson, Steve Fisk, Sharon Aldridge, Ann Boothroyd, Tony Garton, Judy Stevens and Sandra Walker were locked in a battle along with the Bypass Action Group to save Eastgate from the dreaded ‘Red’ route favoured by the Department of Transport for the much needed new bypass. Having been successful in their protestation, the group went on to organise some more gentle and celebratory events, the Festival of Parish Maps in 1991 and the Celebration of Courtship & Marriage in 1993. But perhaps the most fondly remembered of all was the Deepings Garden Trail, blessed with beautiful weather over the weekend of 13th & 14th June 1992.

With twenty eight gardens open in Deeping St James, Market Deeping and West Deeping, over £1,500 was raised for local charities, visitors turning up in droves from as far away as Herefordshire and Nottingham. There was a limited edition plate hand painted

by Sue Hermsen to mark the event, poetry was written and photographs taken and as well as being a horticultural extravaganza, the weekend was something of a culinary triumph as well. Many gardeners who were serving cream teas had to press gang friends and relations into supplementing supplies, Ann Boothroyd recorded “Sunday morning saw us up early baking more scones. We really thought we had made enough this time, but word had got around, some even came back for a second cream tea so we were in danger of running out even earlier.”

In Dorothea and Alf Price’s garden “Alf played his part as a waiter renewing cups of tea and cakes, in between dealing with innumerable questions as to how to grow tomatoes, melons and cucumbers… And the ways of training cordon apples and pears. No one had ever seen upright gooseberry bushes before!”

As Ann Taylor remembers, “No it isn’t absolutely necessary to visit Glinton Horticultural Society’s plant sale, or pop into Kevin Barkers for pelargonium’s or call in at Helpston Garden Centre (on the pretext of checking that our poster was being displayed) via the Dingle Nursery and of course it was a complete indulgence visiting Bressingham, but if your garden is on show, well you can be allowed a little indulgence can’t you?” continued >

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FEATURE In Cicely Studholme’s new garden in Dixons Road “to the delight of a German visitor whilst poking about she spotted a late blackbirds nest in the shrubs and was delighted thrilled to see ‘Mama’ watching her with a beady eye.” This episode was kept secret for fear of frightening the parents away!

In spite of everyone wondering ‘if we were going to do it next year?’ the trail has survived in West Deeping and for more pictures of this years Midsummer Magic please turn to page 42.

It is perhaps not surprising that Ann Taylor took to the Open Gardens with such gusto, her house has a history of being at the cutting edge of flower growing in the Deepings. John Boydon had moved to what is now her home at the top of Eastgate in 1910. He was a wheelwright, undertaker, builder and decorator and busied himself with many village activities including being the Chairman of the Deeping and District Horticultural Society for nine years. For many years he won the Challenge Cup at the August Horticultural Show and he was vegetable champion at the Rose and Sweet Pea Show. A news item of October 11th 1940 reported that ‘Mr Boydon of Eastgate has grown another giant marrow, weighing thirty and a half pounds, length twenty eight inches, girth thirty one and a half inches. A few years ago he grew one of forty two pounds. Fifteen plants grown

by Mr Boydon this year has produced a total of two hundred and twenty four marrows.’

Just up from Eastgate in Church Street in the house which until recently was the Post Office was the home of florist Henry Joseph Horton as listed in White’s Lincolnshire Trade Directory 1922. Mr Horton had been in service in London before moving to Deeping St James. He had two large greenhouses built on a portion of his garden where he grew many varieties of pot plants and cut flowers. Outdoor Chrysanthemums were a speciality which he sold in his shop cum greenhouse which he had built almost on the pavement edge. This enterprising soul also bought the land adjacent to the Old Boathouse 14

at the top of Eastgate on which had stood Charlotte Smiths cottage. This land supplemented the growing at his house ’Silwood’ nearer to the Church. As well as a keen interest in horticulture, Henry Horton was an avid canary breeder and he had a room specially built for them. Henry and his son George were living and trading from the property until the late 1940’s.

When Henry Horton retired from market gardening, Billy Crowson bought his plot at the top of Eastgate and divided the land into allotments which were used as such for a number of years. One gentleman in particular grew standard roses and took many first prizes at the Rose and Sweet Pea Show.

Nancy Titman in conversation with Pat Abel describes a time between the two World Wars when families seldom left the village. ’The village was their world. Apart from the lack of transport most people’s time was taken up with work, especially the men folk. The high spot of the week in fine weather was to go for a gentle walk through the village after attending Sunday evening service. Dressed in their Sunday best they would enjoy a chat with their neighbours and a drink at one of the public houses.’ Violet Henfrey remembered leaning over the garden gate talking to neighbours framed with the blooms of an old fashioned cottage garden. Favourite walks included over the fields to Frognall along Fardons Balk and through the Park (now Brownlow Drive, Welland Way and Park Road) to the Walnut Tree. Longer walks took them down Sandy Bank over the river and at the railway line an back to the old stone bridge. Another foray would take them over the river and up to Market Deeping. Memories of these pleasures are so vivid they are still fresh with older residents.

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Dean Wilson Dean Wilson has always been a retailer by personality.

His career started when he opened his furniture shop in Walton on the Hill in Surrey, an idyllic English country village with swans on the pond, swifts on the wing and residents who were keen to buy the pine furniture in his shop with stylish little pine trees arrayed in a line outside. After only a short time spent with Dean you can tell that he brings a certain panache to everything he turns his hand to!

When he was offered the opportunity for an open audition to become a weatherman he jumped at the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. One day he had been working 14 hours a day in his store 7 days a week and on the next he found himself travelling in business class to Atlanta, Georgia, where he was to train to present the weather on Sky TV. A career at QVC, the home shopping channel, followed, the perfect vehicle for his presenting skills and the joy that retailing gives him.

He later moved to Granada TV’s Shop which was filmed on the dockside in Liverpool, sharing the same studios as This Morning.

A very keen golfer, he soon had another serendipitous chance when he was offered the opportunity to work on The Golf Channel which lead to him commuting to LA for four years. He has also followed 16

in the footsteps of Henry Kelly and John Suchet and hosted Channel 5’s weekday quiz programme, Going for Gold.

‘Dean and his wife Simone have made the Deepings their home’

But it is Create and Craft, the first TV crafting channel, sister of the Ideal World Shopping Channel which broadcasts out of Peterborough and into 70 million homes worldwide that has proved the most enduring vehicle for Dean’s sunny personality and undoubted people skills. The channel has won seven gold awards and Dean himself has won Personality of the Year for three years running, an award voted for by the viewers and valued by Dean the more so because of this And to what does he attribute his success? His ability to look into the camera and imagine it is his Nan he is talking to enables him to present live smoothly to an appreciative audience for four hours a day from Sunday through to Wednesday. And the audience is growing: six million crafters in the UK in an industry worth £3 billion nationally; last year approximately 9% of all new crafters were in the 1620 age range.

Dean and his wife Simone have made the Deepings their home with fiveyear-old George at a local school and older son Jack working locally.

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They relish the sense of community which is palpable here – the coincidences which meant that a branch of Dean’s preferred hairdresser P’Kai, opened as he moved here, and the fact that he had met Dale McKean dog-walking in Eye where he previously lived, and then discovered that he happened to be the Dad of Donna from Riverside Beads and a regular contributor to Create and Craft. He loves nothing more than a mooch around Market Deeping Antiques and Craft Centre; furniture restoring and upcycling is a hobby that has stayed with him since his days in Walton on the Hill. On a Saturday afternoon you may well find him at Lilli’s behind a warming pot of tea with his family in tow, marvelling at his recently discovered ancestry. Dean had been asked to bring a picture of a family member to the studio for use in a scrap-book project. An eagle-eyed viewer had seen this and had traced Dean’s family back to the 1700s; while he thought that his family were firmly based in Surrey’s stockbroker belt he found that instead they were from Norfolk and therefore he has made his way back to his roots. It’s no wonder that the family have developed a deep sense of belonging here!

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DESTINATION INSPIRATION

Fortunately it’s not necessary to pack a bag, board a train or fly away to an exotic destination to experience another world and to escape from the humdrum of the everyday. Here a selection of novelists discuss which destinations have inspired their work. Is all we have to do is to pop the kettle on, cuddle up in a comfy chair and be transported anywhere in the world....

Castle Drogo and The Year After

Local Ex-Head teacher now Author - Ros

I first visited Castle Drogo on a crisp, bright autumn day. I was just putting the finishing touches to a novel called The Unicorn Road, an historical mystery novel set in an exotic medieval world of spies and adventurers, its characters spreading out across the globe, from Norman Sicily to Moorish Spain, to Damascus, China, Genoa and Cathar France.

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fortune as a retailer, and who had been persuaded that he was related to the To walk in available his footsteps, grandfather thatphone is, and or hear skylarks in the EW BOOK now formy download onto tablet from www.amazon.co.uk peaceful countryside near Albert 100 years later to the day is a strange experience, but it’s not his story. That’s my grandmother on the cover, too, but it’s not hers either. They were inspiration, though.

Reviews say the research for the book ‘is impeccable’, but it was much easier living permanently in France and visiting the battlefield sites regularly. War Diaries at Kew verified Grandad’s positions throughout that day.

ancient Drewe family who had owned estates in the area.

Drewe’s plans (he quickly added the extra “e” to his name) were enormously grand, as any visitor to Castle Drogo can see. But that autumn day, exploring the place for the first time, I was struck not only by what he built, but by what he didn’t build. Because three years after work on the castle began, war broke out in Europe. In 1917, Drewe’s beloved eldest son died at Ypres. By 1918 nothing was the same. Work on Castle Drogo continued, but economically, socially and personally, Drewe’s world would never be the same again.

Belonging to the Royal British Legion gave us the opportunity to attend reburials of WW1 soldiers, discovered during modern day construction work near Loos, carried out with military precision and respect.

Standing on the edge of the gorge outside the castle, I reflected that I’d read a Hearing a lone piper appearing through the early great many novels that contained action set in the trenches of the Western Front. morning mist was highly evocative. How could I not But that afternoon I began to plan a novel about the First World War which be moved by such an experience? We found Grandad’s Local Ex-Hea d teacher no w Au thor -the would not describe the gas, the barbed wire – in fact a novel all about friend’s name on Thiepval memorial too, among the 72,246 there.

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99 From Endeavour Press, the UK's lead ing independent pub NEW BOOK now Visiting sites where shell craters pit the area, now green lisher of digital boo available for dow ks, RO S RENDLE’S nload onto phone or tabThe let froYear m wwAfter, The result was set.co.inuka county house in Devon in the last two and fertile, while looking from the escarpment to the w.amazon ving worked as a head teacher, Ros has been used to writing policy documents, essays and stories to weeks of 1919. It is a novel about memory and remembering, and about slag heaps of industry that were deemed too precious, ich young children enjoyedHow listening. she has writing who, having made so many sacrifices, are just beginning to realise characters cannot be described. could INow not write thistaken book?up the much greater challenge of tion forGrandad adults. She writes both historical sagas and contemporary romance; perfect for lying a warm that by despite the victory, despite all the blood and all the killing, the world they came home. There were some happy endings. thought they were defending has already disappeared. mmer pool or curling up on a cosy sofa. www.rosrendleauthor.co.uk s is a member of both the Romantic Novelists' and Historical Novelists’ Associations. This is her second The Year After by Martin Davies is published by Hodder & Stoughton, and is available wwww.facebook.com/RosalindRendleAuthor ok. .

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Bruges – Karen Maitland

Le Marche, Italy

If you walk into Bruges from the station, you’ll pass a willowfringed cannel where swans glide beneath ancient walls and a little bridge leads to an open door. It’s the entrance to the medieval beguinage, the city of women, which inspired my historical thriller ‘The Owl Killers.’

‘You know why is so special? Le Marche? Because is secret! Nobody come. Nobody except special people!

Like you! You will love.’

So Cosimo describes his beloved home in Hester & Harriet: Love, Lies and Linguine, my second novel featuring the irascible but indomitable widowed sisters. Partly for research, mainly for pleasure, I visited Le Marche (pronounced Lay MARkay), an unspoilt region of central Italy, lying between the Adriatic and the Apennines, famous for shoemaking (its luxurious leather footwear reason alone to visit), its olives, truffles, even accordians!

‘Every woman who enters that gate passes beneath the word ‘sauvegarde’ – the place of refuge.’

When dusk drifts down into its cobbled streets, the beguinage is transformed into one of the most atmospheric corners of Belgium. Bruges itself is wonderful medieval city of cannels,

lace shops and ancient streets smelling of chocolate and pancakes smothered in advocaat. Visit the fish markets, the beautiful chapel of the Holy Blood, the medieval hospital St-Janshospitaal, the palace of the Lords of Gruuthuse, and the oldest pub Café Vlissinghe (1515).

But if the mist is curling over Minnewater, the old harbour, tread carefully, for they say minne or waterspirits who haunt it still hunt human prey.

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Admire wonderful Renaissance art and architecture in Urbino and Ascoli Piceno, explore the wild mountains (especially the Monti Sibillini and spectacular Frasassi caves), enjoy fine beaches and fishing ports, or take in Macerata’s yearly al fresco opera festival. Sample a glass of its famous Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi. Trust Cosimo and visit Le Marche, a special destination and a secret treasure.

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Hop on the 101 bus to Bourne from one of the bus stops in Church St or Halfleet Market Deeping (leaving Deeping at 10 minutes to the hour). This connects to the 201 bus for Peterborough via Stamford that leaves Bourne bus station at 15 minutes past the hour. This exceptionally pretty route is a gentle way to take in the hidden treasures of the villages around the Deepings. No need to rush, but set a day a week aside to take the trip and each time uncover another hidden gem!

Afternoon tea is served at the Toft House Hotel, which has a commanding view across the countryside in this tiny hamlet. How do sandwiches of oak-smoked Shetland salmon with cream cheese sound, served with a refreshing cup of Earl Grey tea, topped off with a freshly baked fruit scone with Stoneham hedgerow raspberry jam? The River East Glen flows through the village to the south and the village itself gave its name to the Toft Tunnel on the former Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway which closed in 1959 and ran

about one mile to the north. This was the only tunnel on that railway, which ran for the most part over the Fens. The tunnel is actually in Lound, though still in the parish. It is now managed as a nature reserve.

The Bowthorpe Oak is on the left between Witham Crossroads and Carlby. With a girth of over 40 feet and at over 1,000 years old, it is reputed to be England’s

oldest oak tree. Sitting up higher in the bus gives you a good view on the left-hand side.

The church at Carlby is a little walk from the main road but the collection of stone buildings, with their decorative chimneys and unusual windows, and the glorious topiary that surrounds the church make it a worthwhile one. The church is dated 1134 and is dedicated to St Stephen. Close by are the enviable playing fields with tennis courts, a football pitch and children’s play area. There are tales of a large half man-half beast that lurks between the village and Castle Bytham, its forlorn cries thought to be heard around twilight – fortunately long after the last bus has departed! After leaving Carlby, remnants of the Bourne-Essendine branch line railway can be seen on left.

Essendine is famous for the factory of Allis Chalmers, later Fiat-Allis, housed on a large industrial site, which gave way to several small industrial units, some may say that this is all that there is to see and stay on the bus! But how wrong they would be! For just as you get into continued >

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the village from Bourne on the right is a tiny church with a very big architectural presence. The church itself was likely once to have served the late 12thearly 13th-century castle (now destroyed) and it is sited on the edge of the moat which is still visible.

The church itself consists of a chancel and a nave without aisles. The Norman doorway is identifiable by its decorated archway though it is a little-known gem with decoration over the door (a tympanum) of Christ with angels on either side. There are also decorations on the door jambs which have a Saxon look about them and it is possible that they, along with the tympanum, have come from elsewhere and that the door has been reconstructed. A group of curious sheep look on as travellers make their way down the gravel drive, well worth a stop on the bus!

Alight from the bus on the main A6121 as you approach Ryhall and stroll for five minutes down New Road to the centre of this traditional old village.

The river Gwash runs through the centre under the old metal white bridge which is replete with a

a large figure of St Christopher, the patron saint of travellers, appropriately for our Deeping rovers!

raft of resident ducks. This is also the home of the Wicked Witch restaurant, now under the ownership of celebrated chef, Dameon Clarke; it’s easily recognisable sign gently sways in the wind. Tempted by the menu which offers such delicacies as smoked eel and duck? The restaurant is open St. John the Evangelist, Ryhall Tuesday to Sunday 12.00 to 2.00pm.

But just around the corner at the Village Stores and Post Office it is also possible to treat yourself to a sausage roll or scotch egg from the kitchen of Dameon Clarke, and on Friday there are also dishes made by the chef himself that can be bought to take home for supper! Cakes from Deliciously Different are also available and the village is home to a previous employee of Hotel Chocolat who now, as B is for Brownie, uses her skills to extract cocoa from the coffee bean to make pure chocolate used in the mouthwatering brownies that she makes. The current favourite on sale at the Village Stores is the salted butterscotch brownie!

On the second Tuesday of the month between 10.30 and 12 there is a coffee morning held at St John the Evangelist Church which lies in the heart of the village. The Church is early 13th-century and was associated with the legend of St Tibba, who was said to live here in the seventh century. On the north arcade is

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Just in front of the Green Dragon is a sycamore tree planted to commemorate the 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, which replaced an earlier tree which was planted to mark the Coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837.

The Green Dragon is a handsome old building with a reputation for serving delicious pizzas but there is also a lunchtime menu served from Tuesday to Saturday with two courses for ÂŁ9.00. On Sunday traditional lunches are served.

After leaving Ryhall remnants of the Essendine-Stamford branch line railway can be seen on the left including the bridge over the River Gwash.

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HISTORY

Medieval Deeping: a tale of bloodshed and conflict In the Middle Ages, Market Deeping was almost a coastal town. It was nowhere near the sea, but it was more or less on the fen-edge and in some ways, this might have felt quite similar. But if Market Deeping really had stood next to the sea, rather than the fen, it might have got into a little less trouble with the Church. For right in the middle of the fens, on the larger islands, were the abbeys: RAMSEY the rich of gold and fee, THORNEY the flower of many fair tree; CROWLAND the courteous, of their meat and drink, SPALDING the gluttons, as all men do think; PETERBOROUGH the proud, SAUTREY by the way – that old Abbay Gave more alms in one day – than all they.”

As the old rhyme puts it, founded (supposedly) as remote places where holy men could shield themselves from worldly affairs in a protecting wilderness, the medieval abbeys quickly accrued gifts of land and, surrounded by such natural wealth, they became some of the biggest, richest organisations in the whole of medieval England.

Today’s impressive parish church at Crowland is only a fraction of the size of the original abbey buildings.

The monks – about 40 in number in Crowland’s heyday – lived a fairly high life, with numerous servants.

But they had rivals. In the later Middle Ages, the lords and ladies of the manor of the Deepings were among the chief movers and shakers in the land: Margaret Beaufort, 32

mother of King Henry VII, spent some early years in the wellappointed manor house at Castle End in Maxey, and retired to end her days as a nun at Collyweston, near Stamford; between times she was a leader of the Lancastrian faction in the Wars of the Roses.

So, naturally, as they jostled along between wealth and poverty under a fairly rough-and-ready justice system, the fen-dwelling monks of St Guthlac’s Abbey at Crowland always seem to have had one bone or another to pick with the land-dwelling people of the Deepings.

peat, and so forth. The dispute spread to a quarrel over dyke maintenance – essential on the flood-prone fenedge. The Deeping gang then hijacked two wagons of provisions heading for Crowland and the next time the monks came to the market at Market Deeping for their regular grocery shop, they were beaten (so says the Chronicle) almost to death, and dumped from their own boat in the river. The Deepings became a no-go area for anyone linked to Crowland Abbey, and questions were (literally) asked in Parliament. King Richard brokered a fragile peace.

It started around 1390. The boundary marker at the centre of the dispute was a cross called Kenulf ’s Stone, which was set up to mark the boundary between Crowland and Deeping.

Immediately to the east of Kenulf ’s Stone was a rich marsh called Goggisland, which seems to have been disputed territory between Deeping and Crowland.

The Lord of West Deeping objected to the boundary, and took the Abbot to court. Meanwhile, the men of West Deeping enacted some rough justice over the boundary in Holland, stealing the abbot’s cattle, fishing in his bit of the river, wrecking his nets, cutting

This lasted until a monk, out travelling alone on abbey business, was kidnapped and held hostage by manorial officials; other workers from Crowland and Spalding were also threatened and roughed up, and the Deeping gang threatened to head out to the fen towns in force. At this point another young nobleman stepped in on the Crowland/Spalding side. This was Henry of Bolingbroke, the future King Henry IV, who had Lincolnshire connections and happened to be staying at Peterborough. Henry’s own gang immediately rounded up everyone in Crowland who had any connection to the Deepings, among them an outlawed murderer named Simon Geldard, who had been hiding out in the Deepings. The Spalding gang then lynched Geldard, and rumours reached Deeping that Henry was about to sack Deeping wholesale, so the Deeping gang surrendered and sued Henry for mercy. The King backed the monks, and so the matter

HISTORY seemed permanently settled in favour of Crowland.

But in 1393 another dispute broke out. ‘The commons of the county of Northampton’, in partnership with the monks of Peterborough Abbey, extended the Welland dyke east of Kenulf ’s Stone, on the Crowland side, without the Abbot’s permission. The dyke broke and flooded, which to the monks naturally meant divine retribution. But that was not all: the Deeping gang broke down the stone cross, took it to Deeping, threw it in the town pond, and felled the trees which had stood around it. The Abbot appealed to the King again, and the Deeping men were carted off to Lincoln in fetters, pending release once the cross had been rebuilt. The Deeping gang took the hint and rebuilt the cross.

some reason the Chronicle is careful not to criticise her. And in 1484 the Deeping gang were up to their old tricks on the Holland side of the boundary, cutting reeds and issuing threats and violence against anyone from Crowland who got in their way. The Chronicle says nothing about any reprisals, so, in the end, Deeping seems to have won, and held on to access to Goggisland.

But the old base of the broken cross remained, and stands there today, just south of Welland Bank: quiet testimony to the strange, vanished landscape of the Fens, and the fury and greed which its riches inspired.

And there it stood – for a while. In 1465, the Chronicle records in a crestfallen tone that the cross had been broken and the boundary forgotten. Exactly how this happened isn’t made clear, but it has something to do with the fact that Margaret Beaufort had become lady of Deeping Manor – and she seems to have been happier without the boundary marker, although for

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Age Concern in the Deepings Age Concern Deepings is an independent voluntary charity, affiliated as a Friend of Boston and South Holland Age UK. It’s aim is to support elderly residents of The Deepings and surrounds, by offering help, support and social activities, especially (but not only) to those who have difficulties getting around or need extra help, encouragement or relief from loneliness It is one of very few charities in the county which runs mini-bus services and this is especially valuable as many older people live a long way from public transport routes and no longer have use of a car.

The following are the principal services provided.

1. Mini Bus Transport. A team of around ten volunteer drivers, all DBS checked, insured and trained, provide a service that has become very popular. The two mini-buses offer a doorto-door service for all the activities below, plus regular shopping trips to Stamford, Spalding and Bourne.

Additionally, trips are offered to meals out, day trips (e.g. to the coast or local attractions) and for groups having a day out. A small voluntary contribution is asked from the passengers, depending on distance travelled.

2. Day Care. Following a referral from the health centre, social services or others, people with extra care needs can be picked up by mini-bus every Friday for a friendly and welcoming day. Day Care is under the leadership of a qualified supervisor, and is based at the Open Door Centre in Deeping 36

St James. It provides activities, encouragement and a good mid-day meal. This offers a change and respite care, both for the people concerned and their carers. New volunteers for this service are being looked for at the moment!

3. Sunday Club. The Sunday Club meets once a month at Joan Wake Close, Market Deeping. Its aim is to provide a happy and fun afternoon for those who find Sunday a long and dull day and who would like to spend some time with friends.

There is usually some form of entertainment on offer and there are games, quizzes and time for a good chat, as well as tea and homemade cakes. Door-todoor transport by mini-bus is provided if needed.

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Luncheon Club.

This offers a weekly gettogether with friends over a three-course dinner at Benedict Court, Deeping St James. The food is purchased locally, cooked on the premises, served and cleared away by a team of volunteers, who ensure that about 30 of our older residents get a good meal and an opportunity to meet and make friends. Transport by mini-bus is provided for those who need it.

5. Visiting and Befriending Service. A team of about 60 volunteers, who are all DBS checked and trained, offer a friendly face and support to any older person who is lonely or isolated. Family or friends may recommend someone who would welcome this service but, of course, the person is always asked first, if they would like visits.

Volunteers and clients are carefully matched and many friendships are made and, occasionally, additional help accessed, if needed.

6. The Library Bus. This service is run in partnership with The Friends of Deeping Library and funded by a grant from Barchester Care. It provides a fortnightly door to door mini-bus trip on a Monday afternoon for those who find it hard to get to the library. Users have time to change their books and a cup of tea is provided, with time for a chat. An escort comes with the driver and helps to carry books for passengers, if required.

Age Concern is run by volunteers, in a Management Committee, which includes a representative of the users of its services, as well as the leaders of each service.

For more information about any of the services offered by Age Concern Deepings, please contact, in the first instance, its Chairman, Chris Knight, on: (T) 01778 345558 (M) 07549 033431 or ageconcerndeeping@btinternet.com

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Children’s Craft Parties Craft parties that come to you! This 2 hour party package includes allows children to explore a new craft for half an hour - selected from a variety available that can be themed to fit in with your party plan. This is followed by a provided lunch and then a second craft can be explored. The party concludes with a colouring competition with a prize for the winner. Everyone is given a craft party bag. The price per child is £12.50 with a minimum of 8 children and thereafter £10 for each additional child, Call 07860577297 or 07872610132

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what’s on John Clare Cottage, Helpston Summer Art Exhibition: Sally Hammerton July, August, September Fri, Sat & Mon 11.00 - 4.00 pm

Village Open Gardens Deeping St. Nicholas 1pm to 5 pm.

Sunday, 9th July Ten village gardens as well as a butterfly walk and refreshments. Proceeds will go to the Parish Church which will also be open on the day.

Local artist Sally Hammerton works in Florilegium of the Chelsea Physic Garden and is an exhibiting member of the Welland Valley Art Society. A selection of her greetings cards are currently for sale at the Cottage. To obtain an invitation for her November ‘at home’ exhibition email sally. hammerton@gmail.com

John Clare Society Festival Fri 14th - Sun 16th July Helpston 14th July Midsummer Cushions Ceremony at St Botolph’s Church 1.30pm 15th July AGM, Stalls, Exhibitions, Talks, Folk Music & dancing, lunches, tea and poetry readings Evening concert: Decent Scapers 6.00pm St Botolph’s Church Tickets £5.

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Events calendar at www.deepings.co.uk

The Wind in the Willows Friday 28 July 7.00pm, outside in Peterborough Cathedral Cloisters Enjoy the beloved tale of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad in the magical open-air setting of the Cloisters, performed by Boxtree Productions. This family show is packed with inventive staging, original songs and fantastic storytelling. Refreshments will be on sale, or you can bring a picnic. You are welcome to bring a blanket to sit on or a low backed chair … and clothes to suit the conditions as the performance will go ahead whatever the weather! Tickets £12 adults (on the day, £15), £9 children under 16 (on the day, £11), £33 family, 2 adults, 2 children (on the day, £40). Book online or at Oundle Box Office, New Street, Oundle (01832 274734) or at Peterborough Information Centre, Bridge Street, Peterborough (01733 452336).

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